Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association on ...

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose bold leadership reshaped history and continues to inspire justice movements today.

The Movement. The Moment," and the theme ... garnering the attention of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On March 9, word came that King was coming to Memphis at the urging of ...

Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...

Martin Luther King Jr. has been dead almost 60 years ... "to chronicle the American civil rights movement and tell the story of the ongoing struggle for human rights," and to "educate and serve ...

The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

The National Civil Rights Museum held a moving tribute to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his assassination. Speakers at the event, including State ...

One speaker, Frank Smith, Jr., is the founding director of the African American Civil War Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Martin Luther ... and other King acolytes, the motel was partially preserved and incorporated into the museum, which opened in 1991, "to chronicle the American civil rights movement and tell ...